Francisco Caamano, Spain's Minister of Justice
Posted on 08/14/2009 3:16:47 PM PDT by NYer
.- The Collegial Medical Organization and various pro-life groups in Spain have strongly rejected statements by the country’s Minister of Justice, Francisco Caamano, who said Thursday that “there is no room for conscientious objection” when it comes to abortion.
The president of the Collegial Medical Organization, Dr. Juan Jose Rodriguez Sendin, said, “The right doctors have in Spain to conscientious objection is going to be respected, whether they like it or not, and it is better this is accepted on good rather than on bad terms.”
Conscientious objection is universally recognized in the medical profession, he insisted, noting that the commitment not to kill, not to abort, not to take part in torture, not to betray patients has been part of medical practice for more than 40 centuries.
“It should not seem strange to any normal person that doctors do not want to perform abortions, what ought to seem strange is the opposite,” he added. “Because it is not an ideological problem, it is simply a question of freedom. For this reason, we are going to defend the right of doctors to conscientious objection,” Rodriguez said.
The Association for the Defense of Conscientious Objection issued a press release calling the statements by the Minister of Justice “sectarian, imprudent and revealing of a manifest scorn for constitutional law, which considers conscientious objection to abortion a right of doctors and other health care professionals.”
“For the vast majority of doctors, the rejection of abortion is not based on moral principles but on the conviction that it presupposes ending human life,” the association warned.
It also noted that conscientious objection is the last resort for a citizen “when an obligation imposed by law causes rejection or a grave moral conflict.” “We are certain that the Minister would not want to ‘taste his own medicine’ if he found himself in other circumstances,” the group said.
“We deplore the ‘crusade’ that has been launched in recent days against freedom of conscience,” the association said, calling on the Minister of Justice to publicly clarify “whether his respect for freedom of conscience is sincere or is subject to political interests.”
Right to Life spokesperson, Gador Joya, warned Caamano that no minister and no government “can force a doctor to end a human life and harm the health of his patients. No matter what Mr. Caamano says, we doctors protect life and care for our patients. The vast majority does not practice abortion nor will we,” she stressed.
What kind of a person would INSIST that a doctor kill a life? Who would FORCE a doctor who did NOT BELIEVE in stripping a little growing baby from its first nest? IF there are not enough doctors to kill little lives still growing in the quiet of mom's womb, then TOUGH SHIT! No where in our constitution is CONTROL OVER DOCTORS and their CHOICE OF MEDICAL PRACTICE AND DECISION WRITTEN INTO IT....I feel sorry for the Spanish doctors. My heart breaks for them.
Well, that sent me into a whirlwind of cognitive dissonance. Perhaps the conviction that it presupposes ending a human life IS a moral principle is something the leftists are missing?
Just for the record, I take as a moral principle that ending a human life without moral cause is immoral. Murder, abortion, euthanasia are all immoral. Taking lives in moral warfare or self-defense is abhorrent, but moral.
/johnny
Forcing a Doctor to preform an act that he or she can not support because of religious beliefs is WRONG and must NEVER be allow to be forced upon the medical community.
Where is the King in all this? Surely he has something to say about his governments ministers.
Mark my words. Communism will arise again!
Those who want to make abortion fully funded and fully available to anyone say that it should be illegal for a medical provider to deny a procedure that is legal to a woman that requests it. They will use this same argument to force medical schools to teach the procedure or lose funding and for a medical student to be forced to participate or lose his/her scholarship or grants.
It cannot be a “state” issue anymore than it should be a “federal” one. It is a “human rights” issue both for the unborn HUMAN (undeniable) and the medical providers. Abortion IS taking a human life and the only moral provision that can allow it is in the case of the mother's life in imminent danger (where both mother and child will die without immediate intervention, i.e.; tubal pregnancy). All OB/GYNs are trained for this rare but sometimes necessary procedure.
Doctors should be allowed to object for any reason, “religious” or otherwise. It is their human right!
Do you feel the same way about murder? Legal in some states — and between the killer, his weapon and their God?
Once abortion becomes officially so defined by the UN, it will simply be a matter of time before punitive measures are taken against dissenters.
192 people lost their lives on March 11 2004 as ten bombs exploded across commuter trains in Spain. This occurred as the country was getting ready to vote. The result? They voted in the Socialist Party. Since then, the Socialists have guided them down the slippery slope to their culture of death. Is it any wonder the Holy Father has chosen Spain to host the next World Youth Day in 2011. May he bring their government rulers enlightenment and the country's Catholics, hope and courage to continue their battle.
Some of it I believe was a knee-jerk over-reaction to the end of Franco's rule. The church in some regards was viewed as pro-Franco. By the end of his reign Franco was not very popular, and the church ... and everything it stands for ... shared in this.
It is true that, in rare instances, abortion is necessary. I knew someone who had a tubal pregnancy, then lost triplets (from placenta previa). Her fifth child turned out to be the only survivor.
Why someone would intentionally take a human life is beyond me.
I pretty much think so.
/heavy sarc
Woe unto Spain.
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